Another review, this time from The Travel Editor. The reviewer loved the book (apart from a lack of pubs, it seems); I loved the review. The UK’s County Tops Pros: delightfully daft idea Cons: needs more pubs Verdict: superb travelwriting project Ranging from the 80m Boring Field in Huntingdonshire to the 1344m Ben Nevis in…
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Outdoors Magic reviews The UK’s County Tops
Outdoors Magic has given an early welcome for The UK’s County Tops (the ‘ideal step’ for anyone weary of the usual hill lists), published last week. I’ve copied the text below – or click here to see the real thing. Just arrived is a new book from Cicerone, The UK’s County Tops by Jonny Muir,…
Book number 3 – The UK’s County Tops
It is always exciting to get books through the post, even when they are ordered and expected. I never tire of pulling open those brown card envelopes from Amazon. But when it’s your own book – a pre-release – inside that envelope, and you hold it, cradle it, for the first time, reflecting on the months and years (of toil) it took…
Undiscovered Scotland discovers Isles
Here is the review, and a link to the actual thing on Undiscovered Scotland’s website: Isles at the Edge of the Sea by Jonny Muir is a wonderful, inspiring book about a journey undertaken by the author to a series of Hebridean islands. His journey is as much about self discovery as it is about…
A foray into fiction?
My library of reading is made up mostly of what I know: outdoors, travel, adventure, exploration. Those genres, for 15 years, formed the bulk of my reading. I remember spending a year engrossed in every book detailing the 1997 Everest disaster, then another 12 months or so dedicated to the polar exploration of the early 20th century…
Isles at the Edge of the Sea – July book of the month
Books From Scotland has chosen Isles at the Edge of the Sea as its July book of the month. The website has also published the prologue to the book online, which I’ve re-produced in full below. Nowheresville O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,…
Isles at the Edge of the Sea reviewed by grough
Here is the text of a review of Isles at the Edge of the Sea by grough magazine, published this week: In 1773, Samuel Johnson joined his Scots friend James Boswell in a tour of the Hebrides that would produce not one but two accounts of the journey through the Highlands to the islands. Almost…
Mud, Sweat and Tears (and Isles at the Edge of the Sea)
Some welcome publicity for Isles at the Edge of the Sea on the website of Mud, Sweat and Tears. Bemused by a weatherman branding the west coast islands of Scotland ‘nowheresville’, Jonny decided to prove him wrong, quit his job and embarked on a journey which has sparked a new book… Irony at the edge…
Shopping for Isles at the Edge of the Sea
Various folk have asked me how and where they can purchase a copy of Isles at the Edge of the Sea. So here goes: after a short delay in distribution, the book is now available. It can be bought online at the usual outlets, including Amazon, Waterstone’s, Blackwell’s, Foyles and WHSmith. If actual book shops and real-life…
Publication delayed slightly – but also some very good news
From my publisher: Slightly late from the printer we anticipate taking receipt of Jonny Muir’s Isles at the Edge of the Sea next Monday. That’s the the 23rd May. Jonny’s book has already racked up a record number of pre-publication orders so we have high hopes for it. Full story here.
Jonny Muir – Books on Facebook
A Facebook page – called ‘Jonny Muir – Books’ – has been launched to coincide with the publication of Isles at the Edge of the Sea next week. It seems the done thing. Please click on the link to the right to ‘like’ the aforementioned page. I will be very grateful. Alternatively, follow this link.
Isles at the Edge of the Sea – the Edinburgh launch
I will be speaking about my new book, Isles at the Edge of the Sea, at Blackwell’s book shop in Edinburgh on June 2. The event runs from 6.30-8pm. Please follow this Facebook link for further details; please come along. Now I just need to think of something to say… …this helps: calm, clear waters…
Heights of Madness 